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Word: cold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting in my Cold War Historical Studies lecture. It was my first day in class, and I was bleary-eyed and scruffy-tailed after three years of the stupid Core...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...heard great things about this Cold War class and was into it. Then I heard the sound of plastic ruffling to my right. "That's cool," I thought. "Someone's brought a snack. How efficient...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...Target number four: back to the Cold War lecture (must be something about the type of people attracted to the Cold...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...public anxieties that were expended on the Manichaean struggle between the West and the U.S.S.R. Compared with the prospect of nuclear annihilation, hoodlums smuggling things across borders strike most people as an inevitable and tolerable fact of life. But John le Carre, the most artful chronicler of fictionalized cold war espionage (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), takes a less sanguine view of the outlaw capitalism that only intensified after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the old world order. Single & Single (Scribner; 347 pages; $26), his 17th novel, provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corrupt Practices | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...with his nose as part of his act--probably just so he could write off his huge purchases of surgical gloves. And perhaps strangest of all, he refused to kiss Carmen Electra when she was on his talk show. He says it was because she was recovering from a cold. But I think it was because she sleeps with Dennis Rodman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Is the Purell in Hand | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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